Headache Management

Have you been having severe headaches for years, have many medical investigations done and nothing abnormal found, with numerous visits your doctor gave you pain killer medication and advised you to rest, but the headache just returned over and over again?

If you fit in the description above, then you are at the Right Place and WE CAN HELP YOU!

Headache is a complex and debilitating presentation which can impact significantly on your performance and quality of life. Headache has been classified into many subcategories by their potential causes, triggering factors and symptom presentations. Headaches can be broadly classified as primary or secondary headache.

Primary headaches are benign, recurrent headaches not caused by other potential, underlying conditions, illnesses or diseases, and 90% of headache presentation belongs to primary headache with some of the common examples including Migraines, Tension-Type Headaches and Cluster Headaches.

Secondary headaches are caused by other presenting conditions or problems. For example, cervicogenic headache is caused by musculoskeletal dysfunction of your neck (cervical spine) and can be managed well with physiotherapy. However some causative underlying conditions can be life-threatening, including meningitis, subarachnoid haemorrhage, intracranial aneurysm, or brain tumour.

It is extremely important that your physiotherapist carefully assess you to rule out the potential serious underlying causes, and